Hey, when was America last great, Roy?

Roy Moore Believes America Was Great During Slavery.

Rome, Greece, The Persian Empire, The Ottoman Empire, The Russian Empire before Alexander II - all were great during slavery (OK, serfdom. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.).

But was America great before the Civil War, or even shortly thereafter?

No.

America became great in totally conventional historic terms with its "rise to globalism" that began around the time of McKinley.

And has been great in the same terms ever since, though The Duce, the Bannonites, and the Buchananites are doing their best to diminish the global significance of our country.

Bozo by being the fool he is, and the others quite deliberately.

Anyway.

Back in September, one of the few African-Americans in the crowd asked the candidate when he thought was the “last time” America was great. 

“I think it was great at the time when families were united. Even though we had slavery, they cared for one another. ... Our families were strong, our country had a direction,” Moore responded, according to a Los Angeles Times report in September.

So the last time America was great was the last time families were strong, and the last time families were strong was before the Civil War?

Not the usual standard, and surely wrong on the facts about families, anyway.

Nothing was more hellish on families than slavery and the horrible conditions of the free working class in the early period of rising industrialism.

Moore’s comments resurfaced Thursday in a tweet by Eric Columbus, who served in the departments of Justice and Homeland Security during the Obama administration.